Talking-machine



A. D. ANDERSON.

TALKING MACHiNE.

APPLICATION man JUNE 5. 1919.

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TALKING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 5.1 919.

Patented Jan. 6, 1920.

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TALKING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 6, 1920.

Application filed June 5, 1919. Serial No. 302,005.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTON D. ANDERSON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Harrison, in the county of Vestchester and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved TalkingNIachine, oi which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The present invention relates to newand useful improvements in talking machines, and pertains more particularly to that type of machine in which the talking machine per se is combined with an article of formture, as, for example, a table.

Devices of this character have been heretofore constructed, and it is the prii'nary ob ject of the present invention to so construct the device that the operation of placing and removing the record tablets is greatly fac1l1- tated.

A. further object of the invention is to so construct a device of this character that a tight and continuous passage is obtained between the amplifier and the tone arm.

With the above and other objects in vi ew, reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings in which- Figure 1 is a top plan View showing the position of the parts during the operation of removing and replacing record tablets;

Fig. 2 is an end elevation partly broken away of the complete device;

Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the reference character 10 designates a table or similar article of furniture, and beneath the top of said table, a suitable cabinet is formed, said cabinet being divided by means of a partition 11, into two compartments 12 and 13. The compartment 12 is adapted to contain the record tablets when not in use, and access to said compartment is gained through the medium of a hinged door 14 in one side thereof. The talking machine mechanism is carried within the compartment 13, and access to said compartment is gained by means of the door 14', which is hingedly supported as at 15.

Secured to and extending through the bottom wall 16 of the compartment 13, is a sound amplifier 17, the upper end of which is rigidly connected to a suitable block or the like 18, said block being provided with a passage 19 in register with the sound passage through the amplifier 17.. Mounted upon the upper face of the block 18, is a washer 20, which is provided with an angular upper face 21, said angular upper face being inclined, as shown in Fig. 3.

The member 22, the record table 23, and the tone arm 21- are carried by what is shown as a motor-board 25, which is mounted on and moves with the door 14-. This motor-board 25 is provided with an opening 26, which is adapted to register with the opening 19 through the block 18, and on its bottom face and surrounding said opening 26, the motor-board 25 provided with a washer 27, the lower face 28 of which is out on an angle corresponding with the angle of the upper face 21 of the washer 20. The washers 20 and 28 may be formed of any suitable soft material, such as felt, or the like, and the thickness of the two washers when in their contacting relation with each other, is slightly greater than the space be tween the block 18 and the motor-board 25 for a purpose to be hereinafter described.

Suitably secured to one of the side walls of the compartment 13, as by means of a bracket 29, is an anti-friction roller 80, and said roller is adapted to receive the motorboard 25, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, when the same lies within said compartment 13.

The operation of the device is as follows. The bar 14: is opened and the several parts of the talking machine are moved to the po sition shown in Fig. 1. In this position record tablets may be positioned on or removed from the table 23. After a record tablet has been positioned on the table 23, the door 14 is closed, moving the several parts to a point within the compartment 13.

As the motor-board and its contained parts move within the compartment 13, the washers 20 and 27 are brought into such relative position that their openings coincide with each other. As before stated, the thickness of these two washers in this position is greater than the space between the block 18 and the motor-board 25, which construction causes a compression of the wash ers 20 and 27, which in turn provides a practically sound-proof joint between the tone arm 24 and the amplifier 17.

By this construction it will be seen that the present invention provides means which facilitates the removal and replacement of record tablets in talking machines of this type, and, at the same time, insures of perfeet transmission of sound from the tone arm to the amplifier, all leakage being pro vented by means of the two Washers 20 and 27 and their manner of operation.

I claim:

A device of the character described C0111- prising a cabinet, an amplifier rigidly mounted Within the cabinet, a Washer of pliable material surrounding the opening of the inner end of the amplifier and having an angularly disposed outer face, a motor board pivotally mounted Within the cabinet and provided with an opening adapted to register with the inner end of the amplifier when the motor board is within the cabinet, a washer surrounding the opening through the motor board 011 the side thereof adjacent the amplifier, said washer having an angularly disposed outer face, the angle of which is opposed to the angularly disposed face of the washer surrounding the opening of the inner end of the amplifier, whereby a tight joint is provided between the motor board and the amplifier when the motor board is positioned interiorly of the cabinet.

ANTON D. ANDERSON. 

